Book Review – The Dosadi Experiment by Frank Herbert
The Dosadi Experiment is set in the same universe as Whipping Star, which has recently been reissued by Tor. After reading that book I just had to reread The Dosadi Experiment as well. First published in 1977, seven years after the first ConSentiency novel, I consider it to be Herbert’s best non-Dune work . . .
Book Review – Whipping Star
Whipping Star is the last of Frank Herbert’s non-Dune books Tor has been reprinting in recent years. This 1969 novel is the fist full novel in the ConSentiency universe. Up to this point there were only two short stories in this setting. I discussed both of them in my review of Eye. Like these short stories Whipping Star has the unusually observant BuSab agent Jorj X. McKie for a main character….
Book Review – Nova Swing
Author: M. John Harrison Publisher: Bantam Spectra Books Cover Artist: Stephen Youll Binding: Paperback Publication Date: Dec. 30, 2008 One expects a lot from a science fiction novel that’s won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2007 (the hardcover edition came out then), the Philip K. Dick Award, and was a finalist to win the [...]
Book Review – Thunderer
Author: Felix Gilman Publisher: Bantam Spectra Publishing Date: January 2008 Binding: Hardcover Cover Artist: Stephen Youll In December I received a review copy of Felix Gilman’s Gears of the City, one of the big releases of early 2009. From what I have read of it the book certainly looks appealing. Unfortunately I had not yet [...]
Book Review – Paul of Dune
Author: Brian Herbert & Kevin J Anderson Publisher: Tor Publishing Date: September 2008 Binding: Hardcover Cover Artist: Stephen Youll Paul of Dune, co-authored by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson is the sixteenth incarnation of the Dune Series. A series that began in 1965 when Brian Herbert’s father, Frank Herbert, wrote his historic masterpiece Dune. Some [...]
Book Review – Scar Night
Author: Alan Campbell Cover Artist: Stephen Youll Publisher: Bantam Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2006 here is a complex theology at the heart Scar Night, the first book of the series known as the Deepgate Codex. The celestial goddess Ayen banished her son Ulcis to Hell because she wanted to close access to Heaven to mortals, [...]
Book Review – Prisoner of the Iron Tower
Author: Sarah Ash Cover Artist: Stephen Youll Publisher: Bantam Spectra Binding: Paperback Publication Date: August 2004 Gavril faces his deepest fear-that he cannot exist without his Drakhoul. His comfortable life was turned upside down in the first book of this trilogy with the appearance of a smoky presence that wrapped around him and invaded his [...]
Book Review – The White Plague
Author: Frank Herbert Cover Artist: Stephen Youll Publisher: Tor Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2007 Tor is reissuing four of Frank Herbert’s novels at the moment. All four non-Dune works. They started last year with Hellstrom’s Hive. Just after new year this edition of The White Plague was released. It is going be followed in April [...]
Book Review – Stamping Butterflies
Author: Jon Courtenay-Grimwood Cover Artist: Stephen Youll Publisher: Bantam Spectra Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2004 A condemned man known only as Prisoner Zero. A Chinese emperor in the distant future. A young street punk in Marrakech. These are the players in a struggle that spans space and time, a struggle that the fate of humanity [...]
Book Review – The Briar King
Author: Greg Keyes Cover Artist: Stephen Youll Publisher: Del Rey Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: January 2003 Switching it up this time to a review of the first book of one of the more worthwhile epic fantasy series being written at the moment, The Kingdom of Thorn and Bone, by Greg Keyes. Those unfamiliar with this [...]
